Maya will be interning at MarkForged again this week. Today she was given her first design project. She was asked to create a machine for measuring the tension of our fiber extruder assembly and completed her design in one (long) day. It features a sled to which a digital force gauge is secured that slides along the length of an aluminum rail on one end and a registration and anchoring post for the device under test (obscured intentionally) on the other end. A fiber is passed through the extruder and clipped to the force gauge which is then pulled along the track while a maximum force reading is recorded. The design works very well and will be used extensively this week to test new extruder refinements. The magnetic clip may look funny but using it has greatly increased the speed of testing.